What if I'm making a text editor with D? I know the text has something wrong, I want to open it and fix it. the exception won't help, if the editor just refuse to open invalid file, then the editor is useless. Try open an invalid utf file with a text editor, like vim, you will understand what I mean
== Quote from spir (denis.s...@gmail.com)'s article > D offers an utf8 checking function (checking utf8 beeing the same as > convertingto utf32, it just tries to convert and throws when fails). I would > use before process to do what /you/ expect. > Denis
